Eight killed after car crashes into river during police chase | 99731Q3 | 2024-04-03 11:08:01
Eight killed after car crashes into river during police chase | 99731Q3 | 2024-04-03 11:08:01
Eight individuals have been killed when the automotive they have been travelling in swerved off a street and plunged right into a river.
The incident occurred throughout a police chase in southeastern& Albania at round 4am on Tuesday.
The driving force of the car misplaced control and veered into the Vjosa River, about 150 miles southeast of the capital, Tirana.
The driving force, who's Albanian, is assumed to have been transporting seven asylum seekers from totally different nations.
All have been killed within the crash while making an attempt to escape police, in accordance with a press release from the local pressure.
Albanian media reported that the driving force, from the northern city of Shkodër, was rushing at up to 120mph.
Footage from the scene show forensic officers recovering the our bodies from crash scene.
Albania& isn't a main route for asylum seekers. But small teams from several Arab nations or Asia use it to succeed in Italy by sea or other neighboring nations by land.
Again in 2019,& the nation& turned the primary non-EU member to have officers of the bloc's border company Frontex to handle its borders within the south and east.
This comes as Albania's Parliament in February permitted a deal to hold hundreds of asylum seekers for Italy.
It divided opinion on each side of the Adriatic from the very starting, but both governments remain adamant about it going ahead.
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